Driving across most East African cities and towns is a nightmare. Dysfunctional traffic lights, poor driving habits and badly designed roads among other factors make for endless gridlocks.
The long traffic jams in Nairobi, Kampala, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa eat into productivity and contribute to fatigue, anxiety and mental stress. This pressing problem cannot, unfortunately, be resolved overnight. Neither can it be ignored, because it is clearly unsustainable. The numbers that tell the traffic gridlock story are mind boggling.
